[Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
I need some help. I am trying to configure my gmetad to collect from different clusters on different IP's. I have 5 clusters. This is my gmetad collections server's local gmond.conf configuration: /* Feel free to specify as many udp_send_channels as you like. Gmond used to only support

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Seth Graham
That might work, but I don't think anyone sets up their ganglia so that a single gmond is trying aggregate all clusters. That's what the gmetad daemon is for. Also note that even though you have a separate multicast address for each cluster, the port still has to be unique. The port is what

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP That might work, but I don't think anyone sets up their ganglia so that a single gmond is trying aggregate all clusters. That's what the gmetad daemon is for. Also note that even though you have a separate multicast

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Jesse Becker
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:05:50AM -0400, Seth Graham wrote: That might work, but I don't think anyone sets up their ganglia so that a single gmond is trying aggregate all clusters. That's what the gmetad daemon is for. But there may be cases where that is useful. For example if you have a

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Seth Graham
On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Ron Cavallo wrote: I see. So I need a separate IP AND A SEPARATE PORT. Got it. Also, I use a single gmond in each cluster to aggregate the single cluster. I configure the gmetad to talk to only gmond from each cluster. Is that wrong? No, your configuration is

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
Cavallo Cc: Bernard Li; ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Ron Cavallo wrote: I see. So I need a separate IP AND A SEPARATE PORT. Got it. Also, I use a single gmond

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Seth Graham
On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Ron Cavallo wrote: Ahhh wait! I do!! On the AGGREGATION Server, I have both a gmetad.conf and a gmond.conf (I also monitor the server itself). I configured RECEIVE channels in the gmond.conf on the aggregation server for every cluster, specifying the IP that

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Xavier Stevens
] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:06 AM To: Ron Cavallo Cc: Bernard Li; ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP That might work, but I don't think anyone sets up their ganglia so that a single gmond

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
, 2011 11:25 AM To: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Ron, You will probably want to configure it to check more than 1 machine per cluster. That way if that machine is the one that goes down you don't lose

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Xavier Stevens
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Ron, You will probably want to configure it to check more than 1 machine per cluster. That way if that machine is the one that goes down you don't lose visibility into the whole cluster. So

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Ron, You will probably want to configure it to check more than 1 machine per cluster. That way if that machine is the one that goes down you don't lose visibility into the whole cluster. So

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Ron, You will probably want to configure it to check more than 1 machine per cluster. That way if that machine is the one that goes down you don't lose visibility into the whole cluster. So

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Jesse Becker
To: Ron Cavallo Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Hey Ron, Your gmond on the gmetad server shouldn't have anything special in it. It should just be like any other gmond. Ours gmetad runs on one

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
To: Ron Cavallo Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Hey Ron, Your gmond on the gmetad server shouldn't have anything special in it. It should just be like any other gmond. Ours gmetad runs on one

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Jesse Becker
-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 01:27:06PM -0400, Ron Cavallo wrote: How does the GMETAD server KNOW to listen to multiple multicast address is my real question. Where do you tell

Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP

2011-03-23 Thread Ron Cavallo
, 2011 11:25 AM To: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Need help configuring clusters to use separate multicast IP Ron, You will probably want to configure it to check more than 1 machine per cluster. That way if that machine is the one that goes down you don't